1. (4:1) For look! In those days and at that timeI will return the exiles to Judah and Jerusalem.
2. Then I will gather all the nations,and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat.I will enter into judgment against them thereconcerning my people Israel who are my inheritance,whom they scattered among the nations.They partitioned my land,
3. and they cast lots for my people.They traded a boy for a prostitute;they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink.
4. Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon?Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia? I will very quickly repay you for what you have done!
5. For you took my silver and my goldand brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.
6. You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks,removing them far from their own country.
7. Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them.I will repay you for what you have done!
8. I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah.They will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.Indeed, the Lord has spoken!
9. Proclaim this among the nations:“Prepare for a holy war!Call out the warriors!Let all these fighting men approach and attack!
10. Beat your plowshares into swords,and your pruning hooks into spears!Let the weak say, ‘I too am a warrior!’
11. Lend your aid and come,all you surrounding nations,and gather yourselves to that place.”Bring down, O Lord, your warriors!
12. Let the nations be roused and let them go upto the valley of Jehoshaphat,for there I will sit in judgment on all the surrounding nations.
13. Rush forth with the sickle, for the harvest is ripe!Come, stomp the grapes, for the winepress is full!The vats overflow.Indeed, their evil is great!
14. Crowds, great crowds are in the valley of decision,for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision!
15. The sun and moon are darkened;the stars withhold their brightness.